Stirling Mortlock
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| Full name | Stirling Austin Mortlock | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 20 May 1977 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 103 kg (16 st 3 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| School | The King's School, Parramatta | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Centre/Wing/Fullback | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1998–2010 2011–12 |
Brumbies Rebels |
117 23 |
(1,019) (17) |
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Correct as of 23 July 2012
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| National team(s) | |||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 2000–09 | Australia | 80 | (489) 29t |
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Correct as of 2013
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Stirling Austin Mortlock AM (born 20 May 1977) is a former Australian professional rugby union player. He has scored over 1,000 points in Super Rugby, and nearly 500 test points for the Wallabies. Mortlock is a former Wallaby, Melbourne Rebels and Brumbies captain.
born 20 May 1977 in Sydney, Australia, Mortlock began playing rugby with Lindfield Juniors. Mortlock was educated at The King's School in Parramatta Sydney. He represented Gordon Juniors at Colt level and still represents Gordon at club level today. He represented Australia at Under 19 and Under 21 level before pursuing a professional career with the Brumbies.
In 1998, Mortlock joined the ACT Brumbies. He was part of the Brumbies Super Rugby championships team in 2001. In 2004 he succeeded George Gregan as ACT Brumbies Captain and played every game that season except the final due to injury and thus was unable to lead the team to claim the Super 12 title that year.
Then Wallaby coach Rod McQueen plucked Mortlock out of club rugby at the young age of 20 to tour Argentina with the Wallabies in 1997.
In 2000, he made his Test debut against Argentina.
2000 was a landmark year for Mortlock – he became the fastest Australian to reach 50 and 100 Test points, he scored the most points and highest number of penalties [16] by any Australian in his first five Tests and created history by becoming the first Australian to score 20 points or more in four consecutive Tests. With the Wallaby team, Mortlock was instrumental in the famous Bledisloe and Tri-Nation Series' Victories of 2000. He scored a sideline penalty goal in 2000 against South Africa in Durban to win Australia's first Tri Nations crown.
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